How To Live Happily On Mars

A survival guide to an unknown world

An ode to imagination

A story of the collaborative strategy for the new primary school in Tomelilla, Sweden, based on Doughnut Economics. Time is interesting. It’s now been just over a year since I handed in the proposal for a strategy for the new school in Tomelilla. I had by then, been working

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Designing purpose in a world full of meaning

It’s not easy to start writing a text nowadays. I’m annoyingly teased by artificial intelligence - “come use me, I’m free!” But I just as annoyingly refuse. The heavily perfected style, the skilfully constructed paragraphs and clear conceptual layouts. AI knows how to do that with great

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The loving stone

If I were to tell you a story about a loving stone, would you believe me? I mean, it sounds a bit weird. But if you’re willing to listen, by the end of this tale, you might realise that love is to be found where you least expect it.

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The planet that kills children

I don’t want to live on a planet that kills children. I even play with the thought of leaving. But where would I go? I can’t say I’m super keen on hanging out on Mars with Elon and all his ex-wives. The moon seems to be a

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Who can afford to be critical?

To criticise is not simply to oppose. It is to care, to question and to imagine otherwise. It is a human act of complexity, a gesture of engagement with the world around us. Criticism can be deeply personal shaped by identity, story and experience. But it can also be collective,

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we ARE systems

Lecture @ Investor Day - Katapult Future Fest 2024 I stand here, as a human being. Not as a business owner, an architect, writer or a researcher. But as a human. And with the concept of being human, the concept of living, comes the familiar existential question - why do we

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Human Melancholy

We talk about transitioning. We talk about transitioning societies for a sustainable future. We talk about the emergency and absolute need for a just transition. But what exactly is it that we believe should transition? Our current status of the planetary crisis is clear and undeniable. The way we wrestle

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Architecture of a new balance

We all live and work with the aim to make the brief moment we have on this earth a beautiful experience. It’s August now and the mornings are beautifully crisp. Malmö is still in a summer haze, people walk by my window slightly slower than usual. Yet in this

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Beast

The dramatically unclear way of living when it is a beautiful struggle How can one word have completely different meanings? How does what we see, confuse what we understand? I read the definitions of the word beast: 1a: a four-footed mammal as distinguished from a human being, a lower vertebrate,

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Angry woman

Dominant fragility The fear of being conquered a contemporary leg cuff Perplexing gender roles and powerplay of vulnerability I feel brave when I’m adrift and tread on your toes While a dominant past of female efforts weighs me down The humming sound from the machinery continues I am deformed

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Balance

The architecture of a new balance Humans live just a brief moment on earth and it should be a beautiful experience for everyone. But in this specific moment, that is not the case. The unbalanced world is harsh and it seems we rather occupy natural space than harmoniously merge with

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Joyful movements

We are standing in front of a massive challenge; we need to shift the way we co-live with our planet. We have collected theories, thoughts and suggestions about how to do this over the last decades, and there has been a massive push forward on discussing and raising awareness of